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Por cierto, ahí van las características de mi "laptop":

david@email-addr-hidden:~$ /sbin/lspci 
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8378 [KM400/A]
Chipset Host Bridge
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8235 PCI Bridge
0000:00:07.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1410 PC card Cardbus
Controller (rev 02)
0000:00:08.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB21
IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link)
0000:00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB
1.1 Controller (rev 80)
0000:00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB
1.1 Controller (rev 80)
0000:00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB
1.1 Controller (rev 80)
0000:00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 82)
0000:00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8235 ISA Bridge
0000:00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc.
VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
0000:00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc.
VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50)
0000:00:11.6 Communication controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. AC'97
Modem Controller (rev 80)
0000:00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102
[Rhine-II] (rev 74)
0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8378
[S3 UniChrome] Integrated Video (rev 01)

david@email-addr-hidden:~$ cat /proc/cpuinfo 
processor       : 0
vendor_id       : AuthenticAMD
cpu family      : 6
model           : 8
model name      : Mobile AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2200+
stepping        : 1
cpu MHz         : 1791.939
cache size      : 256 KB
fdiv_bug        : no
hlt_bug         : no
f00f_bug        : no
coma_bug        : no
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 1
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 sep mtrr pge mca
cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse pni syscall mp mmxext 3dnowext 3dnow
bogomips        : 3538.94

david@email-addr-hidden:~$ /sbin/hdparm /dev/hda

/dev/hda:
 multcount    = 16 (on)
 IO_support   =  1 (32-bit)
 unmaskirq    =  1 (on)
 using_dma    =  1 (on)
 keepsettings =  0 (off)
 readonly     =  0 (off)
 readahead    = 256 (on)
 geometry     = 16383/255/63, sectors = 20003880960, start = 0

david@email-addr-hidden:~$ sudo /sbin/hdparm -tT /dev/hda
/dev/hda:
 Timing cached reads:   796 MB in  4.60 seconds = 173.11 MB/sec
 Timing buffered disk reads:   74 MB in  3.13 seconds =  23.64 MB/sec

david@email-addr-hidden:~$ cat /proc/meminfo 
MemTotal:       450348 kB
MemFree:        113888 kB
Buffers:         45768 kB
Cached:         147604 kB
SwapCached:          0 kB
Active:         222792 kB
Inactive:        83560 kB
HighTotal:           0 kB
HighFree:            0 kB
LowTotal:       450348 kB
LowFree:        113888 kB
SwapTotal:      586332 kB
SwapFree:       586332 kB
Dirty:            5084 kB
Writeback:           0 kB
Mapped:         167184 kB
Slab:            21160 kB
CommitLimit:    811504 kB
Committed_AS:   232480 kB
PageTables:       2340 kB
VmallocTotal:   573432 kB
VmallocUsed:     12156 kB
VmallocChunk:   559188 kB
HugePages_Total:     0
HugePages_Free:      0
Hugepagesize:     4096 kB


Como comenté en correos anteriores, todo el hw ha sido detectado correctamente.

Saludos.